Doggie Custody Dispute Lands in Queens Court

Aww, one look at that adorable Yorkie and you get why humans are bitterly fighting over who gets to gaze into those big blue eyes day after day. Ravely Arias of Douglaston, the original owner of "Panda," has filed a lawsuit in Queens Supreme Court accusing her old friend Leandro Rohde of refusing to give back her dog. According to Arias, she temporarily turned Panda over to Rohde in January because her work schedule left her unable to adequately care him. But now that she has a new job, she wants Panda back and Rohde won't surrender! Arias tells the Post, "The guy fell in love with him, and I feel bad." But Rhodes, a marketing director who lives on the Upper East Side, insists Arias gave him the dog because Panda was "putting a crimp in her social life." He says, "The only thing she asked was that she could visit him on Sundays. She never said it was temporary. I'm not a dog hotel." The only way this story could get better is if Arias kidnaps Panda and goes on the lam with various doggie disguises, prompting a nationwide dog-hunt. And previously on Dog & Order...